Majefties Servants. Dedicated to several Gentlemen of the Honorable Houses of the Inns of Court, his Friends. Covent-Garden, a Comedy, 4to. 1638. firft acted by the Queen's Majefty's Servants, 1632. The Dedication is to the Right Worthy, Sir John Suckling. Hanibal and Scipio, called, An Hiftorical Tragedy, 4to. 1637. but acted first in the Year 1635. by the Queen's Majefty's Servants, at the private Houfe in Drury-Lane. Plot founded on Hiftory; fee the Lives of Hanibal and Scipio, in Corn. Nepos, and Plutarch; fee alfo Livy, L. Florus, &c. An Entertainment on the Prince's Birth-Day, 4to. This is ranked ander Nabbs, in Mr. Langbain's Catalogue, as also in Kirkman's and others, but omitted in Mr. Langbain's Account of the Poets, for what Reason I know not. Microcosmos, a Masque, 4to. 1637. prefented (fays the Title) with general liking, at the private House in Salisbury-Court, and here fet down, according to the Intention of the Author. The Dedication is to the Service and Delight of all truly Noble, Generous, and Honeft Spirits. This is a Mafque which has good Morality in it, and (as I find) was commended by Brome, and others. Spring's Glory, Vindicating Love by Temperance, a Mafque, 4to, 1638. This has much of Morality alfo, and is commended by Mr. Chamberlain, a then noted Poet, and others. It's dedicated to Peter Ball, Efq. There is joined with this A Presentation, as intended for Prince Charles's Birth-Day, (viz.) May 29. which, in other Catalogues has been ftiled an Interlude. There are befides, many Poems, Epigrams, Elegies and Epithalamiums. Tottenham-Court, a Comedy, 4to. printed 1638. but acted five Years before, in Salisbury-Court: And is dedicated to the Worfhipful, Will. Mills, Efq. Unfortunate Mother, a Tragedy, 4to. 1640. It is dedicated to the Right Worshipful, Richard Brathwait, Efq. Some of the Author's Friends beftowed commendatory Verses on this Play, tho' it did not bear acting. The Woman-Hater Arraigned, a Comedy, and Charles the First, a Tragedy, have been by Philips and Winftanly, plac'd to this Author, but without any Ground or Reason: for which see among the Anonymous Plays, hereafter mentioned. Thomas Nafb. A Contemporary with the former, tho' of a more eminent ChaIracter; he was bred at Cambridge, and writ two Plays, called, Dido, Queen of Carthage, a Tragedy, 4to. This was not wholly writ by him, for Marlow did fomewhat affift therein. The Story from Virgils Eneids, lib. 1, & 4. Summers Laft Will and Teftament, a Comedy, 4to. This Author has writ divers other fmall Pieces, both in Verse and Profe; but not that Play of See me, and see me not, as alledged by Mr. Philips and Winstanley. A Alexander Nevile. Young Gentleman, that at fixteen undertook to translate the Oedipus of Seneca, and liv'd in the Reign of Queen EliZabeth. Oedipus, a Tragedy, 4to. printed 1581. but was Englished by him about twenty Years before, and is dedicated to Dr.Wotton, then one of the Queen's Majefty's Privy Council. Robert Nevile. A Fellow of King's-College, Cambridge, in King Charles the Firft's Time, and writ a Play, entituled, The Poor Scholar, a Comedy, 4to. 1662. written divers Years before printed, but I do not find it was ever acted, tho recommended by fome Copies of Verses by three other Poets of that Time, ME William, Duke of Newcastle. R. Langbain has always, a good Word for Quality, he can fee no Blemish in that Person that has a Title, tho' he be fo fharp fighted in all those of a lower Station; and he is so transported on this worthy Nobleman, that he baulks theCuriofity of his Reader, for fome Account of his Life, to vent a clumsey Flattery. He was of the Illuftrious and Ancient Family of Cavendish, a zealous Follower of the Royal Cause, and with it exil'd; during his Aboad at Antwerp, he writ a Book of Horsemanship. He was an Encourager of Poetry, and a Poet himself. You may find his Life at large, written by his Dutchefs. We have four Comedies of his in Print; as The Country Captain, a Comedy, 8vo. 1649. It was acted at the Black-Fryars, by his Majefty's Servants, with good Applause; and afually bound up with another of his, called, The Variety. The Humorous Lovers, a Comedy, 4to. 1677. Acted by his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Servants, with great Applaufe. The The Triumphant Widow; or, The Medley of Humours, a Comedy, 4to. 1677. and acted by his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Servants. This was efteemed a good Play, and Mr. Shadwell had fo good an Opinion of it, that he borrowed a great part thereof, to compleat his Comedy, call'd, Bury-Fair. The Variety, a Comedy, 8vo. 1649. prefented by his Majesty's Servants at the Black.Fryars. Tho' the Duke's Name be not to this, or The Country Captain, which is ufually bound with it; yet, by Mr. Cartwright's Works, and others, we find Satisfaction enough to believe them his. Margaret, Dutchess of Newcastle. HE Honourable Confort of the fore-mentioned Duke, whofe TPlays and Poetry have made fome Noife in the World, and have at least met with Mr. Langbain for an Admirer and Defender. I know not her Family, nor Time of Birth or Death. She has published fix and Twenty Plays, reckoning thofe writ in two Parts, each of them for two. They are ufually bound in two volumes fol. 1662, and 1668. Their Names follow: The Apocriphal Ladies, a Comedy, fol. 1662. This Play is not divided into Acts, but has variety of Scenes, to the Number of three and twenty. Bell in Campo, a Tragedy, in two Parts, fol. 1662. In the laft Part you may find several Copies of Verses writ by his Grace, the Duke, her Husband. The Blazing World, a Comedy, fol. 1668. This, tho ftil'd a Comedy, yet was never perfected by the Authorefs. The Bridalls, a Comedy, fol. 1668. The Comical Hafh, a Comedy, fol. 1662. This Play was, by Accident, omitted in Mr. Langbain's Catalogue of Plays, and ignorantly by other Catalogue Publishers. The Convent of Pleasure, a Comedy, fol. 1668. ' The Female Accademy, a Comedy, fol. 1662. Lady Contemplation, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Duke affifted in fome Scenes of both Parts. Love's Adventures, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Duke writ also the Epithalamium and Song in the last Part. Matrimonial Troubles, in two Parts, the firft Comedy, the last Tragedy, fol. 1662. Nature's Three Daughters (viz.) Beauty, Love, and Wit, in two parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Prefence, a Comedy, fol. 1668. The Scenes defigned for this Play, were fo numerous, that the Dutchefs thought it would lengthen it too much, therefore printed them seperately. Publick Publick Wooing, a Comedy, fol. 1662. Two Scenes and two Songs at the End of this Play, with divers Speeches therein, are writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcastle. Religions, a Tragi-Comedy, fol. 1662. The Sociable Companions; or, The Female Wits, a Comedy, fel. 1668. The Unnatural Tragedy, fol. 1662. The Prologue and Epilogue of this Play, were writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcastle. Wits Cabal, in two Parts, a Comedy, fol. 1662. The Epilogue of the first Part was also writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcaftle. Youth's Glory, and Death's Banquet, in two Parts, a Tragedy, fol. 1662. Two Scenes, and the Speeches of the firft Part, as alfo the Songs and Verfes in the second Part, were also writ by his Grace, the Duke of Newcastle. Befides these Dramatick Works, fhe has writ divers other Pieces; as, The Life of the Duke of New-Castle, 1667. alfo the fame in Latin, 1668. Philofophical Fancies, 1653. A Volume of Poems, 1653. Philofophical Opinions, 1655. Nature's Picture, drawn by Fancies Pencil, to the Life, at the End of which was her own Life, 1656. A Volume of Orations, 1662. Philofophical Letters, 1664. Two hundred and eleven Sociable Letters, 1664. All which Volumes are printed in fol. Thomas Newton. NE of the Tranflators of Seneca, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, he tranflated one entirely, and club'd with Fafper Heywood and Alexander Nevile in the reft; but publish'd them all together, with a Dedication to Sir Thomas Henage, then Treafurer of her Majefty's Chamber. Philips, in his Theatrum Poetarum, afcribes one other Play to this Author, call'd, Tamberlain the Great, which is none of his, but Marlo's. Theban, a Tragedy, 4to. Tranflated from Seneca, as before intimated, it has no Chorus, and is the shortest of all that Author's Tragedies. Thomas Norton, and Tho. Sackvile. THefe Twin Authors liv'd in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, the latter was Lord Buckhurst, and in 1 Fac. created Earl of Dorfet, Mar. 13. 1603. Ferrex and Porrex, a Tragedy, 8vo. first printed 1665. but fince by the Title of Gorboduc, a Tragedy,4to. re-printed, 1590. This Play was present. ed by the Gentlemen of the Inner-Temple, before the Queen's moft excellent Majefty; and accounted an excellent Play, full of Morality. Plot from our British Chronicles. A Thomas Nuce. N Author likewise in Queen Elizabeth's Time, who tranflated one of Seneca's Plays, called, Octavia, a Tragedy, 4to. Confult Sueton. in vit. Claud. Tacitus, lib. 12. c. 14. Dion. Nero, &c. T Thomas Otway. HE Place of Mr. Otway's Birth I know not; but he was of a good Family, and has a Nephew a Captain in the present Service. He was bred at Chrift-Church, in Oxford, and thence remov'd to London, not going on with the Defign of being of the Clergy. Tho' at firft he met with but little Encouragement here, but what a fmall Allowance and Sallery from the Play-house afforded (for he was firft a Player) but after he had writ Don Carlos, he began to have a Name, having in that Play discovered fome Touches of a Tallent, very few of our English Poets have been Mafter of, in moving the Paffions, that are, and ought to be the Aim of all Tragick Poets, Terror and Pity; and in which none equal'd him, in his two following Tragedies of The Orphan, and Venice Preferv'd. He was a Jovial Companion, and a great Lover of the Bottle, and Particularly of Punch; the last thing he made before his Death, being an excellent Song on that Liquor. We have in Print of his, ten Plays; another more excellent than all of them, is, by fome malicious or defigning Perfon fupprefs'd, either hereafter to fet up a Reputation to themselves, by owning it, or to procure a Profit by felling it for their own. Alcibiades, a Tragedy, 4to. 1675. acted at the Duke's Theatre. The Dedication is to the Right Honourable,Charles, Earl of Middlefex. This was the firft Product of our Author. The Plot from Corn. ས་་་ |